Re: Installing own packages with aptitude

["Damon L. Chesser" <damon@damtek.com>]

Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi all, 
>
> I would like to install some selfmade or downloaded packages on my system 
> using apt or aptitude. These are packages, which are experimental or 
> 3rd-party (like my printer driver), and which is no repository for. 
>
> All packages are installable with dpkg -i by hand, and all packages shall 
> reside in a special directory (i.e. /var/cache/apt/archive2/ ). 
>
> How must be the syntax in /etc/apt/sources.list ? I suppose, it is something 
> like
>
> deb file:///var/cache/apt/archive2/	./
>
> Another question:
>
> Is there a way to install those packages, even it has the wrong architecture ? 
> If I do it manually this is working of course, (using 
> dpkg -i --force-architecture) , but is there a way to handle it 
> automatically ? 
>
> The background is, that the closed-source-driver for my printer (Brother 
> MFC210c) is only available as an I386-package, but not as an amd64-package. 
> Although, it is working perfectly on amd64-systems !
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
>
>
>  

This is not my best effort:  I sent this to Hans by mistake, resent it 
but to the wrong list.  Now, hopefully, I have sent this to the right 
list.  Original messages following:

Hans,

Sorry I sent this to you by mistake.  I resent this to the list:


Hans,

I only know one part of what you ask:  dpkg -i --force-architecture
package.deb

see dpkg --help and dpkg --force-help

I use this to install skype (ony 32bit version available) and a few
things  which it depends on (also 32bit versions)

HTH

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Damon L. Chesser
damon@damtek.com